Moral Distress in Paediatric Palliative Care
Learning Objectives
- Describe moral distress through different lenses such as health care ethics and power imbalance
- Reflect upon strategies to reduce moral distress in the clinical setting through advocacy and action
- Identify situations in pediatric palliative care that are common triggers for moral distress.
Didactic Speaker

Dr. Dawn Davies, MD, MA, FRCP(C)
Paediatric Palliative Care Physician, CHEO & Roger Neilson House
Case Presenter

Dr. Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, MD, FRCPC
Paediatric Palliative Care Physician, CHEO
Resources shared in the session
- Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
- CHEO Peer Emotional Empowerment and Power of Support
- Contact: peeps@cheo.on.ca
- SickKids Mindfulness Resources for Healthcare Professionals: mindfulness.project@sickkids.ca
- SickKids Peer Support Program
- Screening for caregiver psychosocial risk in children with medical complexity: a cross-sectional study
- Parental Moral Distress and Moral Schism in the Neonatal ICU
Didactic Materials
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